So you think flying tigers are something!
Vid never showed it. Neither did the YT linked, at article.
If I somehow missed it, please post the exact minute mark that the mountain lion “flew”.
Thanks.
I have a game cam out looking for our local beast.
Only the usual deer friends to date.
Daf, you can surely add something in here for comparison.
Hoping to catch one on my trail cam at the top of the local mountain range. So far the best i’ve got is a fox coming and going at night (eight nights apart).
I saw a cougar fly once. Horseback riding in the Cascades we spooked a deer. I had barely had the thought that I had never seen a deer spook that hard from horses when a cougar came out of somewhere and was airborne the entire time I saw it. It disappeared into thick pine chasing the deer.
It happened so fast
“...running as fast as 45 miles per hour and jumping as high as 19 feet straight up in the air. These cats are also able to jump a span of roughly 45 feet.”
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Yikes! So basically, take the abilities of your average house cat, Scale everything up by 10X, and you’ve got a mountain lion.
As for the cougar, it looks like she (definitely looks like a she) is also wearing a collar, so obviously she’s already been assigned an inventory number. :P
I saw a mountain lion for the first time in my life last Christmas Day. He or she was walking along across the road as if it owned the joint. It was huge. I’m keeping my rifle handy from now on. I’ve been here 17th years and now I know they’ve been out there all along.
They can soar many feet.
could be side effects of tony the tiger’s cocaine laced corn flakes...
An ordinary house cat can jump two or three times his own body length, maybe more.
Looks like a kill there on the rocks.
I believe you can see part of 2 legs with one showing the bottom of a hoof.
Darn. I thought this was going to be about the Thunderbird.
Is that really a mountain lion?
Arizona has jackrabbits that can jump that high.
We have them in our area of Colorado. They often take noisy dogs.
I want to see Moose and Squirrel.
Sounds like the big cat decathlon champ. Runs fast and jumps high and far.
One bright, moonlit night, I had the dog indoors, because it was extremely cold out (minus-30s or colder). The ice on the ground was about a foot thick.
Went outside, and two mountain lions were in his pen. One of them had its head in his doghouse, eating his food.
They both hopped over the dog’s six-foot fence and bounded uphill to about 150 yards away from me and stopped, staring at me. They only hopped a few times and covered that distance within a very few seconds.
They try to attack a victim, human or large animal, by stalking from behind first. If they charge, they jump up from behind and chomp on the back of the neck with their jaws.
If you’re in mountain lion country without a flashlight at night, look behind you every now and then. They shy away from attacking a man or woman who is looking at them. Keep small children indoors at night.
Never heard them growl like the sound effects for mountain lions in movies. Most of the time, when going for food, they don’t make any noise. Other than that, I only heard the female mating call. Heard it many times. Short screeching sounds, like a large bird or something.